NCIS producer Gary Glasberg has revealed new details about the upcoming ninth season.

He told Entertainment Weekly that DiNozzo's mission to uncover a leak in the NCIS squad will continue to be explored in future episodes.

"That storyline will probably pick up in the season opener," he confirmed. "That's definitely something that will impact the team. I'm not sure yet how long it will go on, but it will definitely have ramifications that we'll follow through for a while."

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Glasberg also insisted that the new SecNav (Jude Ciccolella) is "not [intended as] an adversary" for Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his team.

"It's just that he has a different approach to things," he explained. "There's information that he's privy to that will drive us through a lot of season nine."

He added that "politics and Washington" will play "a big part" in the show's ninth season, which is expected to premiere in the fall.

"It will give us the opportunity to see another side of NCIS that we haven't focused on quite as much," he suggested.